by Christa Miller
Only a few short years ago, the idea of recovering forensic data from the cloud seemed like either troubling overreach, or unnecessarily redundant given the availability of evidence from mobile devices.
As encryption became more prevalent on … Read more
This article is a recap of some of the main highlights from the ICDF2C conference 2018, which took place in New Orleans, LA, USA from the 10th-12th September.
The program began on Monday 10th September with the usual welcome registration. … Read more
by Nadeem Alherbawi*, Zarina Shukur & Rossilawati Sulaiman; Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Data carving is a very important topic in digital investigation and computer forensics. And for that reason research is needed to focus … Read more
What Has Changed in 2016 in the Way SSD Drives Self-Destruct Evidence. Demystifying eMMC, M.2, NVMe, and PCI-E.
by Yuri Gubanov, Oleg Afonin
© Belkasoft Research 2016
In the first part of this article, we reviewed different kinds of … Read more
What Has Changed in 2016 in the Way SSD Drives Self-Destruct Evidence. Demystifying eMMC, M.2, NVMe, and PCI-E.
by Yuri Gubanov, Oleg Afonin
© Belkasoft Research 2016
This publication continues the series started with an article on SSD forensics we … Read more
by Nor Zarina Binti Zainal Abidin
Forensic analysis of mobile phones’ third party applications is a new area that needs to be explored. There are a lot of third party applications available in App store.
Mobile forensic software tools … Read more
Almost everyone who uses the Internet has a web-based email account. Many people have two or more, so the likelihood of a forensic investigator coming across a case involving webmail communication is very high. While law enforcement examiners can ask … Read more
In last week’s post, we talked about Bitcoin, Tor and some of the hidden websites only accessible via Tor, such as Silk Road, which was shut down by the FBI on October 1st.
Well, just over a month … Read more
There has been a lot of buzz around Tor, Bitcoin, and the so-called “dark web” (or “deep web”) since the FBI shut down the underground website “Silk Road” on Oct 1st.
As many of you already know, Tor is a … Read more
As part of my third year studying Digital Security,Forensics & Ethical Hacking at GCU, I took part in a group research project to study the artifacts created when using the notes app on an iPad Mini, and if they could … Read more
by Yuri Gubanov [email protected]
Belkasoft Ltd. http://belkasoft.com
This article describes the various types of digital forensic evidence available on users’ PC and laptop computers, and discusses methods of retrieving such evidence.
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A recent … Read more
Introduction
A great number of the mobile phones used worldwide every second require special knowledge and skills from forensic experts. More often it is not enough to be an experienced expert in computer forensics to understand all the peculiarities and … Read more
Introduction
In the forensic lab where I work, we frequently investigate malware-infected workstations. As our user population started shifting from Internet Explorer to Firefox, we observed that one of our favorite forensic tools, Kristinn Gudjonsson’s log2timeline, wasn’t able to provide … Read more
By Todd G. Shipley and Bryan Door
(A complete copy of this white paper and its figures and diagrams can be found at www.nfdrtc.net).
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT
Imaging of hard drives has been the main stay of … Read more
First published April 2005
by ActionFront Data Recovery Labs
www.ActionFront.com
Data Recovery Handling Tips & ESD Precaution
Mishandling is a leading cause of hard disk drive failure.
ESD (Electrostatic Discharge)
A familiar form of Electrostatic Discharge, often called “static electricity”, … Read more